Sold by Erdogan to Bashar, Aleppo has fallen… or has been liberated… depending on the perspective.

A simple question of vocabulary, that does not change the fact that Bashar al-Assad and the Baathist government contradict the predictions, which most analysts had made since the beginning of the “Syrian spring”, in March 2011, more and more clearly – whilst those of some professionals on the ground, who had suggested that the regime still had many years of rule ahead, are confirmed.

Probably the Idlib governorate will be the next step of the re-conquest.

It is, apart from the region of ar-Raqqa (still at the hands of the Islamic State), the last bastion of opposition to the regime (mainly the al-Nosra Front), the last zone that is seriously defended by the rebels and which could fiercely resist the advance of the Syrian army and its Russian, Iranian and Shi’a allies.

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